Cooper walks in the door of the loft. Charlotte looks up from the laptop. "How'd the meeting with your spawn go?"
"Don't call him that, Charlotte. It's not his fault. Be mad at me. Hate his mother but don't take it out on the kid. He didn't ask to be born."
"I don't like this, Cooper."
"I don't like it either. Do you think I wanted this to happen? I didn't"
"You wanted to be a father and now you are."
"But not like this. I wanted to be a father with you. I don't even know this woman, how am I supposed to raise a child with her?"
"I got nothing." Charlotte looks at her laptop again.
Cooper sits in front of her. "Charlotte, I need your help. I don't know what to do."
"What do you mean?"
"This Jen. She doesn't like me."
"Why?"
"She says the night we met I got really drunk and I guess…well she didn't say I forced her …but she said she didn't want to do it without a condom and I kept going until she gave in."
"That's not you."
"That's what I said at first but you know how I am when I'm drunk."
"I don't like you when you're drunk."
"See, she's telling the truth. She doesn't like me."
"She doesn't know you."
"How do I raise a child with her if she doesn't like me?"
"If she hates you so much, why'd she bother to call you."
"She said Ethan wanted to know about me. She looked me up and I guess when she saw I was a doctor that gave her the extra push she needed to call me."
"I'm sorry, Cooper. I know how much you want to be a dad."
"But with you. I want to do it with you."
"Okay."
"What?"
"I said okay. Let's make a baby."
"Are you serious?"
"I am." Charlotte leans in and kisses Cooper.
"Are you doing this because I have a kid with someone else" Cooper pulls back.
"No. It's been on my mind since we got married. I know how bad you need to be a dad. I stopped the pill last month."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
" I didn't want to get your hopes up if it didn't happen right away. It can take months, even up to a year to get pregnant for woman my age."
"You're not old."
Charlotte pulls Cooper to the bedroom by the hand.
The next morning, Charlotte shows up at Mel's Diner. She walks in and asks the manager where she can find Jen Peters. The manager points to a pretty dirty blonde waitress. Charlotte walks over. "I need a minute with you?"
"With me? Is there a problem?"
"Yes, there's a problem. I'm Cooper Freedman's wife."
"Oh, I see."
Charlotte pulls a check out of her purse. "This is for you to take your brat and stay out of our lives."
Jen looks at the check and snatches it out of Charlotte's hand. She stuffs it into the pocket of her waitress apron and gets back to work.
Later that afternoon ,Jen walks into Cooper's office. "What can I do for you, Jazzy Jen?"
"Don't call me that."
"Okay Jen, what do you need?"
Jen drops the check on Cooper's desk. "Your wife gave me this to take my brat and get out of town. I thought about it. I could use the money, but that's not fair to Ethan. He's lived here his whole life, his friends are here and his school."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know she did that."
"You can give your wife the check back, but you better make it worth it for Ethan.." She walks out of his office.
Cooper walks in the door of the loft. Charlotte's reading a book on the couch. He drops the check on her lap.
Charlotte looks up at him.
"How could you do this to me?"
"You asked me to help you . I was helping you."
"By bribing her to take my son and get out of my life?"
"You said you weren't happy and didn't want to be a parent with her."
"I don't but he's still my son. You should have let me make the decision whether I want him in or out of my life. If she took your check I'd probably never see my son again"
"I don't know what you want me to do, Coop. I can't be happy for you that you have a son with some whore."
"I don't expect you to be happy about it but you can't pay them to go away. That's not fair. It's my son, my choice."
"And what about me? I don't get a choice? I just have to accept that I have to share my husband with another woman and her son. I can't do that."
"What do you want me to do, Charlotte? To forget I have a kid. I can't do that."
"I guess we're not on the same page. I'm going to bed."
"Char, we need to talk about this."
"We did. You want the them in your life and I don't. We've got a problem." Charlotte slams the bedroom door and locks it.
Cooper leans up against the door. If this is how it's going to be, I'm going out for a drink."
"Don't forget to knock up another whore while you're there"
Cooper leaves the loft, slamming the door behind him..